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PLGA Operational Conference Report
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"Forever" stamp booklet wins PLGA print-quality Best of Show
The USPS "Forever" two-sided stamp booklet, converted by Avery Dennison Security Printing Div. (Clinton, SC), won Best of Show honors in the 2008 Print Quality Awards competition sponsored by the Packaging and Label Gravure Association. More
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PLGA conference offers look at tomorrow's packaging
To be successful in today's dynamic market, package printers need to "predict the future by inventing it," says Thom Blischok, president of Strategic Consulting Information Resources, in his PLGA keynote presentation. More |
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Gravure's role in the future of printed electronics
If any print process has high potential to make printed electronics a reality, it's gravure. Some of the latest advancements toward that end as well as new research into gravure's potential role for printed electronics was a highlight of last Friday's PLGA conference session, writes The Converting Curmudgeon. More |
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Can gravure leverage digital-print technology?
Although gravure's high speed limits the ability to run digital-print in-line, there are still opportunities for gravure label and packaging printers to apply the high-tech process' flexibility. More
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High-definition corona treatment yields superior results.
It is not unheard of for two different corona treaters to produce the same dyne level, but yield different adhesion results. How can this be? Obviously, not all corona is created equal. Read about Enercon's high-definition corona in Tom Gilbertson's latest technical article.
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Rank Group completes buy of Alcoa packaging biz
New Zealand’s Rank Group, Ltd., wraps up its purchase Feb. 29 of the packaging and consumer businesses of Alcoa. Included in the sale are Closure Systems International; Consumer Products, including Reynolds Wrap branded products; Flexible... More |
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RONDO AG adds two Bobst AccuBraille modules
RONDO AG, a pharma-packaging converter in Gewerbestrasse, Switzerland, and the first to use the Bobst AccuBraille module for embossing Braille on folding cartons, has ordered... More |
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Jacobs & Thompson installs multi-position spooler
Weston, Ontario, Canada-based Jacobs & Thompson, a specialty converter of foam products, installs a new multi-position spooler from Independent Machine. More |
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Prototyping new products
The first thing I like to do when designing a new substrate is to decide what the core needs to be and then choose the surface layers, based upon the fitness-for-use description, advises Eldridge Mount.
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